Revivalism (architecture)
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Revivalism in architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

 is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era
Architectural style
Architectural styles classify architecture in terms of the use of form, techniques, materials, time period, region and other stylistic influences. It overlaps with, and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture...

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There were a number of architectural revivalist movements in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

List of architectural revivals

  • Western civilizations Revivalist architecture
    • Preclassical Revival:
      • Mycenaean Revival architecture (revival of Mycenaean Greek architecture)
    • Classical Revival:
      • Neoclassical architecture
        Neoclassical architecture
        Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...

         (revival of Classical architecture
        Classical architecture
        Classical architecture is a mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance...

        )
        • Federal architecture
          Federal architecture
          Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...

        • Greek Revival architecture
          Greek Revival architecture
          The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...

           (revival of Ancient Greek architecture
          Architecture of Ancient Greece
          The architecture of Ancient Greece is the architecture produced by the Greek-speaking people whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland and Peloponnesus, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Asia Minor and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest...

          )
        • Jeffersonian architecture
          Jeffersonian architecture
          Jeffersonian Architecture is an American form of Neo-Classicism or Neo-Palladianism embodied in American president and polymath Thomas Jefferson's designs for his home , his retreat , his school , and his designs for the homes of friends and political allies...

        • Regency architecture
          Regency architecture
          The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in Britain during the period in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style...

        • Russian neoclassical revival
          Russian neoclassical revival
          Russian neoclassical revival was a trend in Russian culture, mostly pronounced in architecture, that briefly replaced eclecticism and Art Nouveau as the leading architectural style between the Revolution of 1905 and the outbreak of World War I, coexisting with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry...

    • Postclassical Revival:
      • Byzantine Revival architecture (revival of Byzantine architecture
        Byzantine architecture
        Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire. The empire gradually emerged as a distinct artistic and cultural entity from what is today referred to as the Roman Empire after AD 330, when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire east from Rome to...

        )
        • Bristol Byzantine
          Bristol Byzantine
          Bristol Byzantine is a variety of Byzantine Revival architecture that was popular in the city of Bristol from about 1850 to 1880.Many buildings in the style have been destroyed or demolished, but notable surviving examples include the Colston Hall, the Granary on Welsh Back, the Carriage Works, in...

        • Russo-Byzantine architecture
          Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire
          Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire emerged in the 1850s and became an officially endorsed preferred architectural style for church construction during the reign of Alexander II of Russia , replacing the Russo-Byzantine style of Konstantin Thon...

    • Medieval Revival:
      • Romanesque Revival architecture
        Romanesque Revival architecture
        Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed beginning in the mid 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture...

         (revival of Romanesque architecture
        Romanesque architecture
        Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century. It developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style,...

        )
        • Richardsonian Romanesque
          Richardsonian Romanesque
          Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston , designated a National Historic Landmark...

      • Gothic Revival architecture
        Gothic Revival architecture
        The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

         (revival of Gothic architecture
        Gothic architecture
        Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....

        )
        • Carpenter Gothic
          Carpenter Gothic
          Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic, and Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters...

        • Neo-Manueline
          Neo-Manueline
          Neo-Manueline was a revival architecture and decorative arts style developed in Portugal between the middle of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century...

           (revival of Manueline
          Manueline
          The Manueline, or Portuguese late Gothic, is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese style of architectural ornamentation of the first decades of the 16th century, incorporating maritime elements and representations of the discoveries brought from the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabral...

          )
        • Scots Baronial Style architecture
      • Russian Revival architecture (revival of Kievan Rus architecture)
    • Renaissance Revival:
      • Renaissance Revival architecture (revival of Renaissance architecture
        Renaissance architecture
        Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance...

        )
        • Italianate architecture
          Italianate architecture
          The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...

        • Palazzo style architecture
          Palazzo style architecture
          Palazzo style refers to an architectural style of the 19th and 20th centuries based upon the palazzi built by wealthy families of the Italian Renaissance...

           - revival based on Italian Palazzo
          Palazzo
          Palazzo, an Italian word meaning a large building , may refer to:-Buildings:*Palazzo, an Italian type of building**Palazzo style architecture, imitative of Italian palazzi...

        • Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture
          Renaissance architecture
          Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance...

          )
        • Palladian Revival architecture (revival of Palladian architecture
          Palladian architecture
          Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio . The term "Palladian" normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; that which is recognised as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of...

          )
        • Châteauesque
          Châteauesque
          Châteauesque is one of several terms, including Francis I style, and, in Canada, the Château Style, that refer to a revival architectural style based on the French Renaissance architecture of the monumental French country homes built in the Loire Valley from the late fifteenth century to the...

           (revival of French Renaissance architecture
          French Renaissance architecture
          French Renaissance architecture is the style of architecture which was imported to France from Italy during the early 16th century and developed in the light of local architectural traditions....

          )
        • Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Renaissance architecture
          Architecture of the Spanish Renaissance
          Renaissance architecture was that style of architecture which evolved firstly in Florence and then Rome and other parts of Italy as the result of Humanism and a revived interest in Classical architecture...

          )
    • Baroque Revival:
      • Baroque Revival architecture (revival of Baroque architecture
        Baroque architecture
        Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...

        )
        • Dutch Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Baroque architecture)
        • Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Baroque architecture)
        • Edwardian Baroque architecture
          Edwardian Baroque architecture
          The term Edwardian Baroque refers to the Neo-Baroque architectural style of many public buildings built in the British Empire during the Edwardian era ....

        • Stalinist baroque
        • Queen Anne Style architecture
          Queen Anne Style architecture
          The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century...

    • Modern era Revivals:
      • Tudor Revival architecture (revival of Tudor Style architecture
        Tudor style architecture
        The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons...

        )
        • Black-and-white Revival architecture
          Black-and-white Revival architecture
          The Black-and-white Revival was an architectural movement from the middle of the 19th century which revived the vernacular elements of the past, using timber framing. The wooden framing is painted black and the panels between the frames are painted white...

        • Jacobethan
          Jacobethan
          Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance , with elements of Elizabethan and...

           (revival of Jacobean architecture
          Jacobean architecture
          The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style. It is named after King James I of England, with whose reign it is associated.-Characteristics:...

           and Elizabethan architecture
          Elizabethan architecture
          Elizabethan architecture is the term given to early Renaissance architecture in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Historically, the period corresponds to the Cinquecento in Italy, the Early Renaissance in France, and the Plateresque style in Spain...

          )
      • Colonial Revival architecture
        Colonial Revival architecture
        The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

         (revival of American Colonial architecture)
        • Cape Cod Revival (revival of Cape Cod
          Cape Cod (house)
          A Cape Cod cottage is a style of house originating in New England in the 17th century. It is traditionally characterized by a low, broad frame building, generally a story and a half high, with a steep, pitched roof with end gables, a large central chimney and very little ornamentation...

          )
        • Dutch Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Colonial architecture)
        • Georgian Revival architecture (revival of Georgian architecture
          Georgian architecture
          Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United...

          )
      • Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture
        Renaissance architecture
        Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance...

         and Spanish Baroque architecture)
      • Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Colonial architecture and Churrigueresque style)
        • Mission Revival Style architecture
          Mission Revival Style architecture
          The Mission Revival Style was an architectural movement that began in the late 19th century for a colonial style's revivalism and reinterpretation, which drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century Spanish missions in California....

           (revival of Architecture of the California Missions
          Architecture of the California missions
          The architecture of the California missions was influenced by several factors, those being the limitations in the construction materials that were on hand, an overall lack of skilled labor, and a desire on the part of the founding priests to emulate notable structures in their Spanish homeland...

          )


  • Non-Western civilizations Revivalist architecture (largely Orientalist
    Orientalism
    Orientalism is a term used for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, as well as having other meanings...

    )
    • Egyptian Revival architecture
      Egyptian Revival architecture
      Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile during 1798....

       (revival of Ancient Egyptian architecture
      Ancient Egyptian architecture
      The Nile valley has been the site of one of the most influential civilizations which developed a vast array of diverse structures encompassing ancient Egyptian architecture...

      )
    • Pueblo Revival Style architecture
      Pueblo Revival Style architecture
      The Pueblo Revival style is a regional architectural style of the Southwestern United States which draws its inspiration from the Pueblos and the Spanish missions in New Mexico. The style developed at the turn of the 20th century and reached its greatest popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, though it...

       (revival of Puebloan peoples traditional architecture)
    • Mayan Revival architecture (revival of Maya architecture
      Maya architecture
      A unique and spectacular style, Maya architecture spans several thousands of years. Often the most dramatic and easily recognizable as Maya are the stepped pyramids from the Terminal Pre-classic period and beyond. Being based on the general Mesoamerican architectural traditions these pyramids...

      )
    • Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture
      Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture
      The Indo-Saracenic Revival was an architectural style movement by British architects in the late 19th century in British India...

       (revival of Indian architecture and Islamic architecture
      Islamic architecture
      Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the foundation of Islam to the present day, influencing the design and construction of buildings and structures in Islamic culture....

      )
      • Moorish Revival architecture (revival of Moorish architecture
        Moorish architecture
        Moorish architecture is the western term used to describe the articulated Berber-Islamic architecture of North Africa and Al-Andalus.-Characteristic elements:...

        )
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